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Engravings by Gustav Dorè illıustrating Dante's Divine Comedy have been digitized in high resolution and enlarged for a truly atmospheric effect inside the Basilica of Santa Croce
Madrid, Jun 30 (EFE) .- After a life of exile and deprivation, Dante died in 1321 and it is still unknown what happened to the original piece of the poem in which he synthesized universal history, his "Comedy", which was copied in manuscripts of the time, ten of which are in the National Library of Spain, which now exhibits them."Dante Alighieri at the BNE: 700 years between hell and paradise" is the exhibition organized on the seventh centenary of Dante's death and in which the collections that the institution has of the Italian poet (1265-1321) are exposed, among them, the main "jewel": a manuscript of the "Comedy" on parchment from the second quarter of the 14th century written in Florence and which is the oldest of those preserved in Spain.FOOTAGE OF THE EXHIBITION AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SPAIN (BNE)
Rome, March 25 (EFE), (Camera: Álvaro Padilla) The great poet Dante Alighieri went through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in his "Divine Comedy", the most important narrative work in the Italian culture. This year the country is marking the 700th anniversary of his death. FOOTAGE OF THE COMMEMORATIVE EVENTS IN ROME.
Rome, March 25 (EFE), (Camera: Álvaro Padilla) The great poet Dante Alighieri went through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in his "Divine Comedy", the most important narrative work in the Italian culture.This year the country is marking the seventh centenary of his death.FOOTAGE OF THE COMMEMORATIVE EVENTS IN ROME.
Rome, Jul 27 (EFE) .- (Camera: Álvaro Padilla) The hell that Dante Alighieri recreated centuries ago returned on Monday, and until July 29, to the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, where the actor and theatre director, Franco Ricordi, sang the Divine Comedy to prepare for the anniversary of the death of the "divine poet" of the Renaissance.FOOTAGE OF THE DIVINE COMEDY AT THE BATHS OF CARACALLA.